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Sorry for the cheesy pun, but anyway as you all should know this is about a problem that somehow involves epic lvls. The problem is that being so close to epic lvl, I realize how bewildering all of it is. The cost of the spells, lowering spell effectiveness by lowering spellcraft, and mainly just what to do after hitting epic. After Epic all you get is....actually I don't think you get anything. Once you get the ability to learn and create epic spells that's it. I would like to know if anyone else has ever had the "Epic" problems (sorry for that one two) and how they dealt with it. And what should I do after hitting epic? Tell me what you think and about any epic characters you had. I was thinking about multiclassing into a monk after epic, yay for monk bonuses!

Flabulater OUT!

Ok, I will start out by saying(typing) that I have no grudges. It will make sense in a minute.

I was at the pool today with my friend/DM, and he brought up an intresting question. One of our previous friends had left us a long time ago. It all started about a year ago......

So we were playing, like usual, and generally the PCs would be me, Robert, and DM's little brother. Robert is the main character in this post. He and I were good friends, though he had a few flaws as it comes to playing D&D. For starters he was very uncreative, he liked Dritzz knock-offs. He was always a fighter(nothing that wrong about it) but he would also try to act like the cool fighter that is lonely and would sit in the corner while everyone else cheered after a long kraken victory(long story). Even so, he was pesimistic(did I spell that right?) and mean at times. Still though, he was my friend, and I could ignore these. And for all you wondering, yes.....he was munchkiny. Still it was all fine and dandy. But... after he tried to kill me things went a little south. Me and my first character lvl 14 sorcerer at the time were in shock.

We were fighting this really powerful vampire, and I was paralyzed by something(can't remember what) and he had been planning to become a vampire. So after a long time of asking him very seriously to not kill me he finally gave up on it. I was blown away by that moment. A few months after he says to me "Greg, don't tell anyone but I plan to quit." I didn't, he quit, and the worst part was that I had as a player and person always been nice. NOT ONCE HAD I REFUSED TO MAKE AN ITEM WITH THE ITEM CREATION FEAT AND NOT ONCE HAD I DARED TO THINK ABOUT THE XP AND GP COST!!!! And he quit and threw it all away! I held no grudge but was quite angry, though my other D&D friends did hold a big grudge for a long long time. Do you want to know why he quit.....do you? I'll tells ya...he was too popular, we were apparantly going to blab it out to the entire school, he got a girl-friend. That is what popularity does to you, it's corrupting, but no i'm not the nerd that no ones likes i'm also not the most popular person in town. We weren't going to do any of things and every time my friends have wanted to I told them that it's not right even if he did betray us.

Now back to present. Yesterday he called me and asked "Hey Greg, would you know where Vincent(DM) would be." And knowing him and how close he lives to a pool, he was most likely either baby-sitting or swimming. I told him and he had already called DM. He asked if we were still playing D&D, and after I said yes he seemed quite happy. He's probably coming back from boredome or just wants to play. My DM is very suspicious and is still deciding weithier we should let him play or not. Robert can be annoying, but we could use some more PCs and some times it was actually fun when he was playing with us.

I'm gonna wrap this up in one simple question, to let or not to let him come back? What do you think, and why/why not. If you say yes than what would you do to solve these problems? I'll look forward to checking back on this.

~Flabulator OUT!

Well just today finished up an adventure that started last night. Now I left my friends house and am posting the boss that is the boss... Ok to put it bluntly, this boss was awesome! And what really made me like it was that the boss was a combination of a fiendish Artifact and a former god (Malgoth anyone?) that we had once tried to destory. We fought the Malgoth in a previous adventure about that town called Istavan, and the Artifact was from a home-brewed campaign. The artifact took over my evil sister and she became crazy, made a demi-plane, and almost summoned Timat to the material plane... But as we killed her and took the Artifact we jumped into the portal and out of the demi-plane, sadly the artifact got sucked in (failed reflex save...) and was supposed to be lost forever inbetween all of the planes. Then if you know the dungeon issue i'm talking about (the one with flumph adventure, Istavan adventure, and that other temple of Iuz adventure I think but i'm probably wrong about that one) we went near that temple of time and fell asleep. The next morning our NPC friend Onrie was gone... Over the span of about 7 adventures or so we found him this one. He was in the abyss summoning shadows and nightwalkers. He was also corrupted by the Artifact, it had (with the malgoth's help) taken control of Onrie. We had to knock out Onrie or immobalize him to make the malgoth come out of him. We first had to kill the three nightwalkers while the gnomeish army (long story) came in to kill the small shadows, or atleast make a diversion. Oh and for a side question, what god is "The Soul Reaver"? But anyway we killed nightwalkers, and then managed to get to Onrie. I used power word stun and the malgoth left and tried to enter our fighter's body Laurell. She was controled so hold person made the Malgoth leave her body. We fought and fought, and they killed my summoned magma paramental. And for another side question, how many bosses can do 198 damage even if your monster has DR 15 to all 6 hits!?! We finally killed it after finding out it's weakness, cone of cold a thousand and one times. I love being able to cast so many spells per day. Our ranger Quarian couldn't get past DR except for once when he got a CRIT. Our rouge couldn't do anything. Laurell was stuck in the hold person that I cast. And last but not least for all but the last 3 rounds Onrie was stunned. We killed it and finally we have rid the Malgoth of the multi-planed universe!!! Not so sure of the Artifact, but hey were willing to kick it's shardy butt for the 3rd time. But after all of that I have to say that was the best boss i've ever fought, and one of the best adventures yet. And the best part...i'm lvl 19 now!!! Finally I get to use my spell I invented. Onrie died, so did Laurell. So we got them resurected, good thing they were NPC's. Yeah...good times, good times.

So do you have a boss that is the boss, wether it be one you fought, or as for DMs, one you controled. Or maybe if you fought it you could still control it? (dominate person/monster...) So yeah, do you have a boss that is the boss? I'll look forward to reading this later.

~Love The Flabulator!?!

So my friend and DM (Onrie) let me borrow a dungeon magazine. This had the flumph in it, they are neat little creatures in my eyes. So the first adventure went great, infact it was practically the first time I DM'd, and it was the first time I ran a premade magazine adventure. So I need a little help with the follow up adventure. Luckily the group managed to save the boat (stupid low roll, I really rolled two ones on how long it would be to steady the boat...) and now the captain Siram, has decided to make one big adventure through the seas for his last time at the sea. See, in the magazine it said the theives guild was going to watch the PC's if they managed to catch the Grackle. But where to start. Well where we last left off....

Captain Siram met the PC's at the Sand Crab Tavern and said that all his month long work was gone, all of his food he was storing was stolen, along with everything below deck. Now, I recently got Dragon magazine back issue #302 for summoners circle and along with it, came this neato little free traps and treasure cuttable card thing. It had a big ritual looking circle that looked perfect for the theive's guild symbol. I plan to use this. Well this is kinda how it's gonna play out...

1) The PC's decided to not look for the crates (side-adventure) and just take a while longer and then ride off into the ocean in the boat. Well, because of this, one night they will be gambling, talking, about to go to sleep, ect... And then they will make a listen check. (versus rouge move silently check) And if they make it than they hear light footsteps under the deck. If they decide to follow this then we get to stage 2. If not go to stage 3.

2) The PC's manage to get to a hidden circle that has the symbol in the middle that I told you about, then I shall give the card so they can see it. If they decide to go onto the ritual circle they will be teleported to a cellar filled with the old stolen crates. (They will really be in theives guild hide-out cellar) And there is a door, of course there is a trap but it's nothing major just an arrow or two. When they open it...well i'm kinda lost from there. That's what I really need help with

3) if they didn't hear it or decide not to go into the circle than it disapears in about 5 minutes and becomes hidden DC 25 search. True seeing also makes it visible. But if they go to bed, they wake up from a agonizing scream from Siram, he's bellow the deck and is fighting two rouges, all of the crates of food are gone. The rouges try to get him in a net and drag him into the now visible ritual circle. The PC's will probably chase after him, but if they don't then they have no food, no captain which usually guides the boat, and are lost at sea. So they really can't do much. (and a storm is approaching) They will eithier jump in or starve to death at sea and then they will be in the cellar as described in part 2).

So if you could be kind enough and help me continue this, I would be very greatful. Constructive critism also is good, but i'm kinda new to DMing but have played for 3 or so years. Thank you to all my paizo buddies, i'll check back later.

~Love The Flabulator!?!

Hi everyone. It's my second time posting here.(my first post didn't go so well) But anyway as the name states. Evil+Bard. But truely, I can't see a bard as evil. Maybe a bit sarcastic and annoying, but bards and evil don't mix. So i'll give you backstory. It's around that time again, SUMMER! No school, just D&D, and a whole lotta friends. My DM comes to school today and says "Hey everyone I got a whole buncha new campaigns to try over the summer!". It got me worried because he had about 8 to try but eventually I found out that we would not do all just the ones that seemed appealing.(gosh darnit I better hit epic this summer...Epic sorcerer!)

So we decided evil one, AOW(were already well into that), the one with the sorcerer(it's called Age of Oppurtunity), and some other one. Let me say i've never been a Bard but look forward to it, even if everyone says they are underpowerd. I will be a gnome named Gubbaffet(tell me if you know that name, and to spark memory look at this ~GtG...) Titersnitch, and an evil one at that. Think about a crazy phsyco evil gnome bard... So there you have the back story. My DM has the Libris Mortis and was thinking of prestiging into a Dirge Singer. Than perstige into one of those Sublime Chord things. To tell the truth I like the thought of the Bard more than the stats of the Bard, so the prestiges look appealing to me. Could you tell me if you have any experience with a character in one of those prestiges. Or just perhaps with a Bard. I would love to hear about it. Oh and if you know of a neat prestige class for the bard please tell me about it. I will look forward to checking back, goodbye for now.

~Love the Flab

Well just got issue 302. I got it mainly for the summoners circle and added list option. It mentioned you could if your DM approved get some more monsters to add to the list. They had to CR 12-13 to be in the 9th lvl summon monster. And I was mainly asking about that. But my friend is a low lvl sorcerer that also wants to use it so if everyone wouldn't mind posting some monsters that you think should go on the list. Mostly for summon monster IX but also low lvl ones if it wouldn't be a bother. Thank you everyone, I will check once I get back from school.

-Love the Flab